Officer thwarts possible baseball bat attack in Oxnard

An Oxnard man was arrested Sunday after he tried to attack another man with a baseball bat, police said.

Phillip Ortiz, 25, was arrested Sunday morning after an incident in the 1400 block of Beverly Drive in Oxnard, police said.

A plainclothes officer saw Ortiz arguing with a 24-year-old Oxnard man, and the two then got into separate cars and drove a short distance. The officer saw Ortiz retrieve a baseball bat from his trunk and approach the other man, police said.

Uniformed officers arrived and took Ortiz into custody before he could use the bat, police said. Ortiz was arrested and booked into county jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police said.